With Minecraft quickly proving itself to be a largely popular game on the computer, the news that broke yesterday should come as no surprise: Minecraft creator and Mojang founder Notch proudly tweeted that in under a month, Minecraft became the best-selling game ever on XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade, a service that offers an array of game titles through digital distribution). Mojang employee Daniel Kaplan followed up in another tweet saying that 2 million copies have been sold.

The title is no stranger to relatively awesome milestones, though; Minecraft on Xbox 360 was the fastest-selling XBLA game ever, selling more than any other title within the first 24 hours on XBLA. There were over 400,000 people playing already at that time. And on May 14th, Major Nelson amended his post with an update stating that Minecraft has sold over 1 million copies worldwide in just under a week of availability. Also, as of May 14th — almost a month ago — a total of 5.2 million online hours, 4 million multiplayer sessions, and 2.4 million total multiplayer gaming hours were already clocked across all users. Crazy.

Now, bear in mind that the Xbox 360 version of the game is relatively lacking in features compared to its PC counterpart. Enchantments, the ability to connect to popular PC servers, and other key parts of Minecraft have not been implemented in the XBLA version just yet. However, even a more minimal and barebones version of Minecraft is awesome, so it’s not a surprise that people are still purchasing the console version of the game despite these existing “drawbacks”.

I don’t think that the traction surrounding Minecraft will stop anytime soon (not before Notch launches 0x10c, at least.)

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